2014-07-17 Leeward Exh A (Amend Zoning Code App Review within Special Dist

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Orchidland roughly six miles from Pāhoa towards Hilo where there is a small general store, a Blaine’s restaurant, and a gas station and Mini Mart. This is the fun part, just some graphics to show you what kind of architectural features in Pāhoa the community wants to preserve and see perpetuated as the development continues to occur in the village. The, I don’t know if anybody has ever been here, but the Akebono Theater has been there for quite a long time; it’s right next door to Luquin’s Mexican Restaurant – the best Mexican restaurant on the island. This is the main street of Pāhoa Town, one side of it. From a different angle. What’s unique about this, and not necessarily just Pāhoa because this occurs elsewhere on the island, but notice that the buildings share similar features, canopies over the sidewalk. The buildings don’t all look like they were built at the same time by the same builder, developer, whatever; they have an individual character all their own, and this is a big part of what the people really want to preserve and see perpetuated. This is the conceptual renderings that were recently done by Bryson Kuwahara for his big nine plus- acre commercial project out on the Hilo end of town, which was originally the kind of structure that I just mentioned; it was your typical building, one or two-story buildings, that look like a metal barn, more or less, with no real character to them. And he has voluntarily agreed to work with the Pāhoa Steering Committee and comply with these design guidelines. And so this is the revision to his conceptual plan that he has come out with, and you can see how it very much resembles what exists in downtown Pāhoa now. There is another view of part of the development that he is putting in, which will include the first real supermarket in southeast Puna. So, anyway, that’s my presentation. If you have any questions? BEAUDET: Thank you for the presentation. Commissioners, any questions of staff? WHITTEMORE: You know, I was just curious, the review commission for Pāhoa, the advisory commission, are they appointed by the Mayor also, or is this -? BROWN: No, the way it’s structured to be set up is that once design guidelines have been adopted, and the special district is created, design district, then the Director is supposed to go to the Action Committee for the Community Development Plan, in which the community is situated, and ask for their recommendations as to who should be serving as the design review committee for the local community. And the community itself will select who is going to sit on their review board, and they will manage it. It will not be a County agency, and they will be serviced and supported by the local associations or groups that agree to take on the responsibility. So, no, they won’t be appointed. It will not be the same as the KVDC. WHITTEMORE: Okay, I had one other question. I’m assuming that this correspondence, there is a th correspondence of June 12; it was from Myles Miyasato, or was directed to, excuse me, from Charles Maas. Is, and I assume that Charles is sort of leading the charge with the Pāhoa community advisory group, or -? BROWN: Charlie Maas is the member of the Pāhoa Steering Committee, who served as principle author of the design guidelines. WHITTEMORE: Okay. So this document I assume is their draft of the guidelines that they want to follow? 4 EXHIBIT A